Four months before Sunset voters elect their next city supervisor, Natalie Gee, the progressive candidate, has raised more than all her opponents combined, campaign-finance filings released Monday show.Â
Gee raised $67,250 in 2025, the period covered by the latest filings. She spent funds on consulting, website design and printing. Her campaign had about $55,000 in cash as of Dec. 31.
Meanwhile, incumbent District 4 Supervisor Alan Wong raised $17,327 in the same period, coming third among the five candidates. Wong was appointed to the District 4 seat only on Nov. 30, and Gee declared her candidacy a month before, on Oct. 28.
Wong’s totals did include one noteworthy donation: $500, the contribution limit, from Mayor Daniel Lurie, who appointed Wong to the seat.
David Lee, another candidate and the executive director of the Chinese American Voters Education Committee, raised the second most money. He received $19,950 in donations, and had $18,584 in the bank.Â
The filings, though a month old, provide a glimpse into the candidates’ fundraising efforts and who is standing behind them.Â
Gee has also received contributions from current supervisors, including Myrna Melgar, Connie Chan and her boss, Shamann Walton — they gave $250, $150 and $100, respectively.
Former District 4 Supervisor Gordon Mar also gave $500 to Gee, even though Wong worked as Mar’s legislative aide for four years.Â
Gee’s donations have qualified her for public financing, which gave her an initial grant of $60,000, and allows her to receive matching funds from the city at a six-to-one ratio. If she gets a $100 donation, for example, the city will match $600. This applies to donations of up to $150 from a registered San Francisco voter.Â
Lurie isn’t the only official in the mayor’s office donating to Wong’s campaign: Han Zou, the mayor’s director of public affairs, gave $500; Staci Slaughter, the mayor’s chief of staff, and Adam Thongsavat, his liaison to the Board of Supervisors, gave $250 each.
Wong got $500 from District 5 Supervisor Bilal Mahmood and another $500 from former mayoral candidate Mark Leno.
Wong has also received support from the law-and-order crowd: Sheriff Paul Miyamoto donated $250, and Frank Noto, the founder of the nonprofit Stop Crime SF, gave $500.
Gee will likely be Wong’s biggest challenger. While both have experience working with labor, Gee is expected to get more support, both in fundraising and volunteering, from the unions.
Gee earned the sole endorsement from the public sector worker union IFPTE Local 21, where she is an active member and a former organizer. Other unions, including SEIU Local 1021, IUEC Local 8, and AFT 2121, showed up in support of Gee at her campaign kickoff this past weekend.Â
AFT 2121, the union for city college faculty, solely endorsed Wong for his reelection bid for City College of San Francisco Board of Trustees. But their relationship worsened after Wong went against the union over the city college’s next chancellor.Â
Other candidates in the race have raised a relatively modest amount, compared to Gee.
Albert Chow, an organizer for the Joel Engardio recall and owner of Great Wall Hardware, has raised $6,151. Jeremy Greco, longtime Sunset resident and former worker-owner of grocery co-op Other Avenues, did not report any contributions.
Both the District 4 and District 2 supervisor votes will be held during the primary election on June 2, because both incumbents were appointed.Â
In June, voters from those districts will elect a supervisor for the rest of the term ending in January next year. Then, in November, they will vote again to elect a supervisor who will represent the district for the four years after that.
Looks like Jeremy Greco is pro–Sunset Dunes. Does that make him the only candidate so far who doesn’t want to close the park and turn it back into a highway?
https://jeremygreco2026.com/why-running
A primary function of the district supervisors (individually and as a collective body) is to provide balanced representation of their individual district constituents. Pac Heights has different priorities than the Haight. The Marina and the Tenderloin could not be more different. Another essential function and responsibility of the Board of Supervisors is to create checks and balances to the all powerful strong mayor, as reflected in the City Charter. Colluding with the mayor is not the job of a supervisor. It’s gross that Lurie’s camp is bankrolling Wong.Venture capitalists and Tech & real estate billionaires have attempted for years (and continue to try) to hijack our local government for their schemes of private profit. Fake neuroscientist Bilal Mahmood’s divisive and ridiculous (and agist) for term limits on the BofS is a clear example of this attempted powergrab. Here’s hoping it fails spectacularly. The voters didn’t ask for it. The think tank dreamed it up and misguided Mahmood is doing the mayor’s bidding once again, at the expense of his D5 constituents. The same can be said of Bloomberg’s acolyte Sherrill and of Danny Sauter.
Jeremy Greco is the only pro-Sunset Dunes park candidate.
I can understand why the Mayor, and his posse, are funding Wong. If anything happened to Sherrill, Sauter, Mahmoud, Dorsey and Mandelman, he would need a reliable vote on the Board.
Marcos, a stunningly ignorant comment. “…the political class…?” Are you thinking of Mayor Lurie? If you refer to Natalie Gee and Alan Wong, the primary subjects of this article as “political class” I suggest a more apt description is aspiring middle class.
did you see Albert Chow’s flyers posted on vacant storefronts, removed as one business was sold and being remodeled and probably returning to business? Moral of the story, don’t post your flyers unless you have permission on private property. Also, just imagine, Gee had some BOS donate to her campaign. If Wong had this support, he could have gotten the GH ballot measurement put up for a vote. Backing from big money makes him look like a lackey.
We’ve really got to stop the political class from self replicating like this, through the revolving doors of nonprofits, public sector labor and legislative assistants. None of it has the slightest relevance to residents, voters.
residents might have more say in politics if they spent a little more time learning about how the democratic process works and participating in it even if it is special elections or primaries or attending their local political groups. To be honest, for most people there are a lot more entertaining ways to spend time than participating in politics and so the ones that are left are those who are aware of how much it will impact them immediately. In the end the residents who are registered voters determine the results by their vote or decision to not vote. don’t forget to include in the political class the corporate lobbyists and wealthy donors or politicians who finance their own campaigns. it’s not just the little people who are involved, the wealth inequality and citizens united makes each billionaire infinitely more influential in elections in the US.
Hope D4 dont vote for Natalie Gee realized she not in Bayview District and Alan Wong they both have record of “DEFUNDING POLICE”, suddenly showed up and suddenly supported opening great highway.
D4 might vote Albert Chow heavily push to have community input heard in L TARAVAL Improvement Project and Open Great Highway. Lived long enough …etc